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I'm Isaac Dauver. Well, this is what happens when we take a break.

We left for the holidays, and now it's the new year, and we're talking about maybe being at

war with Iran.

We don't know what will happen next, and neither do many people in Washington who would normally

know more.

So this week we decided to sit down with one of those people.

Someone who can give us some perspective not just on where the president is taking us

but also on the stakes on the ground.

Ruben Giego is a congressman from Arizona who sits on the Armed Services Committee.

He's also a combat veteran who served as a Marine in Iraq.

We sat down in his office on Capitol Hill the morning after Iran's missile strikes

right before President Trump spoke and announced

new sanctions. As we got settled and turned on the mics, we were talking about the

missile attacks. When Geigo was in Iraq, he often came under mortar fire. The experience can be frightening, he said,

but like so many things in life,

it can be insane what a person can get used to.

We should get so much mortifier

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